A Girl's Guide to Witches' Major Pop Culture Moment

Guys, with all due respect to the bloodsucking/hairy accomplishments of vampires and werewolves, I'm more than over both creatures. For a while, I've been longing for the good old days, when spell-casting, cauldron-owning ladies were more du jour. I mean, sorry, but Kristen Stewart and her legion of imitators have never done anything this cool:

So it's with pleasure that I announce that, right on time, witches are making a comeback, and television is their mainstage. Witches of East End, which premiered last night on Lifetime, is demolishing Twitter today (catch up here if you didn't see the pilot) and feels ripe to inherit Charmed's witch-tastic crown. A crown that would look lovely on the pretty little head of our acknowledged favorite girl Jenna Dewan-Tatum. Then there's American Horror Story: Coven, which has major witch and witch-hunt themes running through it (or should I say slithering through it? yeeeech).

And right down the street—AHS: Coven and The Originals both take place in New Orleans—is the Vampire Diaries spinoff, where plenty o' ladies versed in the dark craft flit around the vampiric ancestors. Danielle Pineda (above) is my favorite so far.

Meanwhile, it's kinda looking like the most intriguing part of Sleepy Hollow will be Katia Winter's Salem-era witch wife of Ichabod Crane. (As a redhead, she's the sole non-brunette occult enthusiast in this bunch. Since it's only Monday and there's a long week ahead, I'm going to choose not to explore the implications.)

Small screen aside, witchcraft was the order of the day in not one but two pieces of major coming-soon movie buzz. Elizabeth Olsen just got cast as the Scarlet Witch in the next Avengers movie. This, by the way, is the Scarlet Witch:

And if you'd rather pursue a more "witches, they're just like us!" brand of pop culture, I've got you covered there too: You must read Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland, about twin sisters who share predictive powers. I can't put it down, and now it's being made into a TV show—which means we've just come almost eerily full circle. What dark powers are at play here?

Bottom line here, ladies: If you're that girl who's meh on Halloween and goes as "a witch" in your best LBD every year, you're now officially right on-trend. So don't let anybody give you any flak this season. Beats the heck out of going as a sexy pizza. Bottom line #2: The below remains the best thing ever.